John Lacina of PA Plus, who mixed the music portion of the show, reports, "The XL8 sounds, feels, and behaves like an analogue Midas, but with huge digital processing power. I noticed a marked improvement right from the start in the sound quality over other digital products I have used. The XL8 lived up to the hype, so to speak, in that it does not sound digital at all. In this sense the stellar onboard EQ and Dynamics can be used to fine tune, rather than outright fix, the sound, sometimes encountered in other 'less musical' digital systems.
"From our perspective, we really enjoyed working with the XL8 and with the Midas team," Lacina adds. "Steve Lotzer, Mitch Mortensen, and Jim Pfitzinger did a fantastic job helping out on our maiden voyage with XL8 for this high profile show. Manufacturer support is a very important part of taking on a big new digital system like this, and the Midas team is second to none."
(Jim Evans)
